Eleonora Groisman, chairperson of the all-Ukrainian NGO “Ukrainian Independent Council of Jewish Women,” sent an open letter to President Yanukovich and MIA Head Zakharchenko due to the rampant anti-Semitism of the “Berkut” special forces unit Facebook page.
The chances of such a gathering leading to any type of diplomatic breakthrough are surely close to zero; in such a situation, diplomacy becomes reduced to the rituals of protocol.
The European Parliament and the European Jewish Congress will host the official annual International Holocaust Remembrance Day Ceremony at the European Parliament premises in Brussels. It will commemorate 69 years since the largest Nazi death camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, was liberated on January 27th 1945.
Prime Minister Viktor Orban defended a monument marking the Nazi-invasion of Hungary, deepening a conflict with the country’s largest Jewish group, which threatened to boycott Holocaust commemorations in protest.
The New York-based organization Jewish Survivors of Latvia has urged the Baltic country’s President Andris Berzins “to return without further delay the communal property that legitimately, legally, and morally belong to the Jewish community of Latvia”.
Majedah Shaheen has been called a ''traitor'' and ''prostitute'' in response to cartoon referring to Hamas efforts to rein in Islamic Jihad’s military wing.
While Iranian president tells CNN Tehran is not willing to destroy any centrifuges, US Secretary of State Kerry tells Al Arabiya that the US is willing to use the military option if Iran reneges on its deal with the West.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of General Staff, Lt. Gen. Benjamin (Benny) Gantz participated Wednesday in the annual NATO chiefs of defense meeting in Brussels.
